Monica is an open source web-based Personal Relationship Manager
application to organize the interactions with your loved ones. You can think of PRM as a CRM that helps you keep track of everything that’s important about their friends and family. This application is for people who have a hard time remembering details about other people’s lives – especially the ones they care about.

In this guide, we’ll see how you can install and use Monica PRM on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS system.

Monica PRM Principles

It should help have better relationships.

It should be simple to use, simple to contribute to, simple to understand, extremely simple to maintain.

It is not a social network and shall never be.

It is not and will never be ad-supported.

Users are not and will never be tracked.

It should be transparent.

It should be open-source.

It should do one thing (documenting social interactions) extremely well, and nothing more.

Generate an application key and set APP_KEY with the right value automatically.

php artisan key:generate

Run the migrations, seed the database and symlink folders:

$ php artisan setup:production
You are about to setup and configure Monica. Do you wish to continue? (yes/no) [no]:
> yes
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| Welcome to Monica v2.9.0
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| You can now register to the first account by opening the application:
| URL: http://prm.example.com
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Setup is done. Have fun.